The Two Destinies: A Novel
by Collins, Wilkie
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Harper & Brothers, Publishers. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good+ ; No jacket. c1875 Harper & Brothers, Publishers. Harper's Library Edition. Illustrated. This is a later printing. NOT ex-library. No date on the title page. Following this is a printed facsimile dedication page in Collins' hand dated 1873. Hardcover has green pebble-textured cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering and author's facsimile signature on front cover. Front and back covers have blind-stamped ruled borders and the back cover has blind-stamped publisher's logo. Dark brown coated endpapers. Black and white frontispiece, not tissued. Black and white illustrations. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped and rubbed. Covers have light scuffing in a few spots. Name in ink at the top of the title page. Pages clean and unmarked. 312 pages. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
Synopsis
For a moment the horror of the discovery turned me faint and giddy. In another instant I was kneeling by her chair. My arm was round her - her head lay on my shoulder. She was past speaking, past crying out: she trembled silently, and that was all. I said nothing. No words passed my lips, no tears came to my relief. I held her to me; and she let me hold her. The child, devouring its bread-and-butter at a little round table, stared at us. The boy, on his knees before the grate, mending the fire, stared at us. And the slow minutes lagged on; and the buzzing of a fly in a corner was the only sound in the room.
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3858
- Title
- The Two Destinies: A Novel
- Author
- Collins, Wilkie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers, Publishers
- Keywords
- Fiction,Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Literature;
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- Spine
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- Cracked
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- Facsimile
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- Jacket
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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